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The QuickDraw Vaporizer comes with a smart-cartridge system that gives users the option of using three different material types to enhance their vaping experience. Each cartridge attaches magnetically and users can fill them with herb, extracts, or liquids. The QuickDraw boasts to have increased temperature that delivers rich and flavorful vapor and a long battery life. The QuickDraw 500 comes in 4 colors and will run you $160.
Kit Includes: 500 Class QuickDraw Unit 1 Dry Herb Cartridge 1 Liquid Cartridge 1 Extract Cartridge USB Charging Cable Wall Adapter Tool Kit: 2 loading tools, 1 cleaning brush and extra screens for herb use User Manual Loading and Turning On/Off: Loading your QuickDraw is simple, remove the mouthpiece and decide which cartridge you’ll be using and load with your product, remember that if you’re using the dry herb cartridge you’ll want to grind your herb down before loading, make sure not to over pack so everything burns evenly. Once your product is loaded reatta..

Inside a Brooklyn ballroom, investors smoothed their suits and opened their iPads, preparing for a day of sizing up hungry entrepreneurs and impassioned lobbyists.
One after another, startup founders took to the stage, making their cases for a round of venture capital. There was a building materials manufacturer, a catering company and, as one would expect, the inventor of a vaporizer.
It was high time to monetize pot.
Here at the Investor Pitch Forum last week, hosted by the cannabis industry investment and research firm The Arcview Group, some 200 investors Arcview described as “high net worth” met with dozens of companies looking to cash in on the promising new market of legal recreational marijuana.
Cultivating Spirits, a caterer that pairs organic dishes with fine wines and just the right weed, got the attention of more than a dozen investors.
Mule Extracts, a cannabis-oil extraction company, generated some buzz, too. Chief Executive Officer Rachel E. Kurtz made it through a ..

Yakima — As Yakima County officials plan to enforce a ban on all pot businesses in unincorporated areas of the county, marijuana processors and producers are unifying in an effort to stay in operation.
Last weekend, 23 processor and producers gathered to discuss forming a growers association and begin talks with Yakima County Commissioners in hopes of convincing them to lift the ban.
Jamie Muffett, co-owner and operator of Sticky Budz, a marijuana producer and processor outside Zillah, opened his business doors to the Yakima Herald-Republic to show how he’s operating in compliance with state regulations. He believes commissioners would have a change of heart if they understood the safety and security regulations governing the industry.
Meanwhile, commissioners say they intend to stick by the ban because a majority of county voters rejected the initiative that legalized recreational marijuana.
On Sunday, see the full story in the Yakima Herald-Republic and online and get a glimpse i..

MOSCOW, Idaho — Though legal marijuana isn’t coming to Idaho anytime soon, legal marijuana is getting closer to the state.
The Moscow-Pullman Daily News reports that the newest Whitman County, Washington, marijuana store allowed by the Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board plans to set up shop less than one mile from the Idaho border.
Whitman County Commissioner Michael Largent says he believes the store is opening so close to Idaho to target the Moscow market, where marijuana is still illegal.
Moscow Police Chief James Fry says he may contact the shop’s owner, Premium Roast LLC, and see what they’re thinking.
Fry says there have been people caught in Idaho with marijuana packaged and sold in Washington, but there hasn’t been a large number of violations.

Not everything on here is about weed! But I do like sharing my other interests with you, they go well with the some Mary Jane mixed in too.
Xicano artist David Flores is a talented dude. Last weekend he dropped some dope art on a tortilla truck in East Los.
The project came to fruition after a neighbor of David’s kept having his delivery truck tagged on, when David offered to paint it he was told he could put whatever he wanted on it. After putting out the bat signal for donations and volunteers he got to work!
The time lapse videos, with photography from @riceze shows the step by step process of David’s art which is done with spray paint. Since this is a tortilla delivery truck, David wanted to show people harvesting corn. Enjoy and support local and xicano artists!
For art commissions email: [email protected] or check him out on IG @LA_Steez, give @riceze a follow too.
The post Lifted Art: Artist David Flores + Tortilla Truck appeared first on Mrs. Nice Guy.

The following have applied to the Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board:
Meridian Trading, for a license to produce marijuana at Kanehco, 6101 N.E. 127th Ave., Suite 300, Vancouver.
Brandie Ettinger and Christian Ettinger, for a license to sell spirits, beer and wine and kegs to go, at Hopworks Urban Brewery, 17707 S.E. Mill Plain Blvd., Vancouver.
Scott T. Svenson, Allyson D. Svenson, Robert Barton, Lynn M. Barton and Chris Schultz, for a license to sell beer and wine at Mod Super Fast Pizza, 7916 N.E. Sixth Ave., Vancouver.
Jitesh M. Desai, Ramesh Patel, Rasila Patel, Rajen Desai and Anju Desai, for a license to sell beer and wine at Comfort Suites, 4714 N.E. 94th Ave., Vancouver.
Michael J. Guili and Ana L. Hernandez, for a license to sell beer and wine at 7-Eleven, 3200 E. Fourth Plain Blvd., Vancouver.
Bruno C. Amicci, Nathan R. Barile, Claire M. Ghormley, Keith M. Pemberton and Jedediah P. Redington, for a license to sell spirits, beer and wine and kegs to go, at Lowba..

The legal cannabis industry in the U.S. may grow to $50 billion in the next decade, expanding to more than eight times its current size, as lawful pot purveyors gain new customers and win over users from the illicit market, according to a new report.
Legalizing recreational use in California, where the drug is already medically permitted, is on the ballot in November, and approval of that measure alone would triple the size of the nation’s current $6 billion legal industry, according to a report from 10 Cowen & Co. analysts released on Monday. In all, voters in nine states will vote on weed-related initiatives this November — five to legalize the drug for all adults and four to allow for medical use.
Pot already is legal for recreational use in Alaska, Colorado, Oregon, Washington and the District of Columbia, and is medically permitted in 25 states. Cowen’s forecast assumes federal legalization of the drug, a measure that has more than 50 percent popular support.
“Cannabis prohibit..

No matter how much we like to throw around our hard earned cash, there’s never any point in just wasting it. Trying to pick out the best bong to suit your needs can be really hard and with the huge selection out there it can be downright frustrating! That’s why we’ve put together a short guide on things to look out for when you’re ready to buy a bong.
Is your glass bong branded? As with other markets and products, the weed world contains well known, reliable glass makers and brands many consumers trust, but not everyone can afford the hefty price tag they come with. As the cannabis consumption trend grows, you can now find similar, unbranded products for 1/4th the price. When I buy my glass I shy away from the well known brands, if I can get something that looks solid at a cheaper price it’s a no brainer for me.
I’ve never felt comfortable paying for brand names unless it applies to my electronics and always growing Nike obsession. That’s not to say that avoiding the popular brands i..

The American Legion, a group representing 2.4 million U.S. military veterans, has called on Congress to remove marijuana from Schedule 1 of the federal Controlled Substances Act and “reclassify it in a category that, at a minimum will recognize cannabis as a drug with potential medical value.”
In a resolution passed at the Legion’s annual convention last week, the organization said it hopes that better research into marijuana and an official acknowledgment of its potential medical benefits will hasten the development of new treatments for post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injuries, ailments that have plagued veterans returning from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The Legion’s resolution, published online by Marijuana.com, noted that the federal Drug Enforcement Administration recently approved the country’s first randomized, controlled trial using whole-plant, smoked marijuana to treat PTSD symptoms. That study will be conducted by Sue Sisley, an Arizona researcher..

WASHINGTON — Just two years ago, pot lobbyist Michael Collins was a pariah on Capitol Hill.
Marijuana reform was too much of a risk.
Lawmakers wouldn’t meet with him.
Not anymore.
“I’ve got offices reaching out to me,” said Collins, deputy director of national affairs at the Drug Policy Alliance, a nonprofit group that supports the legalization of marijuana. “It’s definitely a big change.”
Marijuana-related legislation was on a fast track to nowhere until 2014. That was the year Republicans and Democrats alike approved a measure that kept federal authorities from interfering in states that allowed marijuana use for medical purposes.
Since then, both houses of Congress have seen a flood of similar proposals.
Lobbyists, policy experts and lawmakers who spoke to Roll Call said the trajectory is clear: Congress is leaning toward decriminalizing marijuana at the federal level – and it’s going to happen soon.
That could happen as early as the next Congress, to some time within the ne..

PUYALLUP — The Puyallup Tribe of Indians is planning to sell recreational marijuana on tribal land in Fife.
Tribal spokesman John Weymer says the tribe is eyeing a marijuana shop where it now runs Stogie’s Cigar & Sports Lounge in Fife, about 30 miles south of Seattle.
The News Tribune reports (http://goo.gl/3IEfYV) that Fife currently bans pot sales so the tribal store would be the only source of legal marijuana in the city of nearly 10,000 people.
The tribe has been moving toward recreational marijuana sales since January 2015, when it signed a compact with the state authorizing its marijuana testing lab.
After the lab opened in Fife this year, it amended the agreement to include production and sales of marijuana for medical or recreational use. It also began prepping a warehouse in the Port of Tacoma area for a grow operation.

SALEM, Ore. — As Oregon officials struggle to license all sectors of the recreational marijuana industry before the end of the year, a top official of the agency that accredits pot-testing labs said it is overwhelmed — a potential blow to the rollout.
Gary K. Ward, administrator of the Oregon Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Program, known as ORELAP, emailed dozens of labs awaiting licenses, saying his agency’s abilities to accredit them is “on the precipice of collapse … because of the lack of resources and the last minute rush of cannabis labs with applications.”
Ward’s complaints have drawn the attention of Gov. Kate Brown. Ward said in his Aug. 26 email that he had asked for three full-time employees to handle cannabis lab accreditation, and received none. Only three labs have been accredited, according to an official web site. A spokesman put the number at four.
If more labs aren’t accredited, marijuana producers will lack tested products to sell. Retailers will have bare..

PORTLAND — The administrator of a state program tasked with making sure marijuana labs are accredited said the Oregon Health Authority has ignored his pleas for resources and that the agency is “on the verge of collapse.”
The Oregonian/OregonLive reports that Gary Ward, administrator of the Oregon Environmental Laboratory Accreditation Program, detailed the crisis facing the agency in a memo sent last week to the health authority. The accreditation division is a health authority program.
He said his agency, which also accredits labs that test drinking water, was initially assured resources to implement state-mandated cannabis testing accreditation, but “so far we have received zero” support from the health authority.
A health authority official said the agency would release a statement in response to Ward’s claims.
Starting Oct. 1, new products headed to marijuana dispensary shelves will have to be tested to assess potency and look for biological contaminants such as E. coli, resid..

Washougal’s ban on producing, processing and the retail sale of marijuana got a bit stickier at a recent city council meeting, as the council took no action and had to set a special meeting for tonight to figure out the future of marijuana in the city.
Washougal’s ban is set to expire Thursday, and at the council’s Aug. 22 meeting, the councilors hosted a public hearing and were set to discuss extending the ban permanently — which really means until a future city council overrules it. Councilor Brent Boger put an amendment on the ordinance to extend the ban until Jan. 31, 2018, and put the ban up for a public advisory vote sometime in 2017.
Boger said he couldn’t support the original ordinance for a few reasons, and regulating marijuana in the city might make more sense than outright banning it.
“We may think we’re doing the right thing for our children and for public safety, but we don’t really know,” he said.
Boger and fellow councilors Joyce Lindsay and Paul Greenlee voted in fa..

GRANTS PASS, Ore. — Josephine County’s growing marijuana industry is experiencing growing pains.
The number of medical marijuana grow sites in the county has remained steady from a year ago, at about 2,500.
But growers who sell to retailers have been sprouting up — 38 new state-issued licenses have been granted this summer to people who plan to grow for the recreational market. More applications are pending.
Pivoting to take advantage of retailer preference for indoor-grown marijuana, these new operations are springing up in former pastures and fields across the county.
“This industry didn’t exist a year ago,” observed Dani Jurmann, standing outside a row of industrial-size greenhouses on Cedar Flat Road near Williams, where he and his family employ nearly 30 people growing marijuana for the recreational market. “The world has changed, and Oregon is at the forefront.”
There’s good and bad happening. The good includes jobs and investments. Jurmann pays employees $15 an hour to star..

Medical marijuana has been legal in Maine for almost 20 years. But Farmington physician Jean Antonucci says she continues to feel unprepared when counseling sick patients about whether the drug could benefit them.
Will it help my glaucoma? Or my chronic pain? My chemotherapy’s making me nauseous, and nothing’s helped. Is cannabis the solution? Patients hope Antonucci, 62, can answer those questions. But she said she is still “completely in the dark.”
Antonucci doesn’t know whether marijuana is the right way to treat an ailment, what amount is an appropriate dose, or whether a patient should smoke it, eat it, rub it through an oil or vaporize it. Like most doctors, she was never trained to have these discussions. And, because the topic still is not usually covered in medical school, seasoned doctors, as well as younger ones, often consider themselves ill-equipped.
Even though she tries to keep up with the scientific literature, Antonucci said, “it’s very difficult to support patients..